{"id":18718,"date":"2017-03-31T04:38:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T03:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18718"},"modified":"2017-05-30T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T15:43:24","slug":"yusuf-bilikisu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/yusuf-bilikisu\/","title":{"rendered":"YUSUF, Bilikisu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, MA, journalist, born December 2, 1952, Kano, Kano State; mar ried Muhammad Sanusi Yusuf 1977, oneson, one daughter; Education: Ansar Primary School, Kano, 1958-64. Government Girls&#8217; College, Dala, Kano, 1965-69, Government Girls&#8217; College, Kano, 1970-71, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1972-75, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 1980-81, Mos cow Institute of Journalism, 1986-87; Ca reer: Appointed Assistant Information Of ficer\/Information Officer, Ministry of Information. Kano. 1976-78: Producer. Programmes Division, Radio Kano, 1978-79; Deputy Assistant Editor (Foreign Desk), Tri umph Publishing, Kano, 1981; Secretary. Land Use and Allocation Committee, Kano State, 1982-83; Editor, Sunday Triumph. 1983-87; appointed Editor. New Nigerian Newspapers, 1987-90; Editor, Citizen Com munications, since 1990;Kano State Repre sentative, Women in Nigeria (WIN), 1982- 87; Public Relations Officer, Federation of Muslim Women&#8217;s Association ofNigeria (FOMWAN), since 1985; member, Kano State Amateur Basketball Association, since 1985; member, National Committee on Women and Development, since 1986; mem ber, Kano Seminar Bureau, College of Edu cation, Kano, 1986; member, Governing Council, Federal Road Safety Corps. 1988: Consultant, Mac Arthur Foundation, 1994; Gender Trainer, ABANTU For Develop ment; Fellow, Nigerian Guild of Editors, 1998; National Honour: Conferred with Member, Order of the Federal Republic 1987; recipient, Award ofExcellence by Ni gerian Association of Women Journalists, 1992; Publications: &#8220;Inconsistency in Nige ria Foreign Policy&#8221; in Towards a Progres sive Nigeria, edited by Asikpo Essien Ibok Triumph Publishing Company, Kano, 1983; &#8220;Women in Politics&#8221; in Women in Nigeria Today. Zed Press, London, 1985; &#8220;Mass Media in Politics&#8221; in Politics of the Second Republic, edited by T.l. Imobighe, NIPSS, Kuru, 1987; The Political Future ofNige ria, Ahmadu Bello University Press, Zaria, 1988; The Muslim Woman, MSO, 1988; Hobbies: reading, travelling, debates; Offi cial Address: Citizens Communications. PMB 2334. 4, Sultan Road, GRA Kaduna, Kaduna State;Telephone: 062-230165.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18718","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18718"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}